Now You Are Awake

There is nothing for you to learn but to be Who you are and recognize yourself for the Fine Being you are. You can skip all the steps in between when you come to Self-Realization. Of course, this is knowing beyond the intellect. You could memorize Einstein's Theories, yet that does not mean you know them.

In knowing Who you are, you know in your bones, you know in your heart, you know in your life. This is not just a lovely thought I give to you.

You almost grasp it. There is a pool of light around you. You see it. You feel it. You are it.

No one has to point out to you where you stand. Crowds could point out the light shining around you, yet, unless you see it for yourself, you can only suppose. I am not speaking of an idea of Who you are. I am speaking of your full experience of Who you are.

It's a funny thing because when you do know, you don't have to know! You know it without thinking about it. It is like, sort of, going from a black and white movie to raging Technicolor. It is like, sort of, being in a backyard pool, and then recognizing that you are in the Ocean Deep. You are there. You are where you are. That's all there is to it.

It is like, sort of, being in your kitchen, and, then, the next thing you know, you are in your living-room or dining-room. You, the same, are somewhere else. Your eyes are the same, and yet you see differently. You have transported yourself into a different novel or into a non-fiction book that you can't put down. You don't know how the book got into your hands, and yet it did. Your hands are the same, yet the book you read is different. You have been transported, it seems, from one movie theater to another. You watch a different screen. You star in a different life. And you are still the same sort of person you used to be except you are in a different place so you are not the same as you used to be.

You look the same. You can pinch yourself the same. And yet you have entered a whole new way of being. Well, not really a whole new way of being, rather, a whole new way of seeing. Without an optometrist, you manifested a new pair of glasses. These are magic glasses. To see through them is like flying to Heaven in an instant. In an instant, the whole world is changed. The change is in your seeing. This is realization.

It is called Self-Realization, for no one does it for you. You come to it yourself. And yet it was always there.

Perhaps you have been wandering in a desert for forty days or forty years or forty lifetimes and there, right before you, is an oasis. No, not right before you. You are already there at the oasis. You are in the shade of it or the light of it. Your old way of life is behind you. You are sparkling new, as it were, yet at the same time, you are the same, only you are experiencing all the difference in the world. You can hardly recognize yourself or anything because all is bright and clear. In a painting, the world would be gilded.

A whole new horizon has opened up for you. It was always there. Only now you see it whereas before you didn't see it. You were sleeping, and now you are awake.